Renaming assets

- Another important detail when you go from print…to digital is the names of your asset files.…So let's take a minute to review some of the best…practices for naming files in a print to digital workflow.…When it comes to digital publishing, it's best…to avoid any fancy characters or spaces…in your file names.…Now what do I mean by fancy characters?…Well, anything that's not a letter, a number,…an underscore, or a hyphen.…When you publish a digital product, your files…are passed through many computers using different…software and operating systems, and just because…a file name works fine on your computer doesn't…mean that it's going to work fine…on every other computer.…

For example, certain characters you can use…on a Mac are reserved by the Windows operating…system and shouldn't be used in Windows file names.…These are things like slashes, colons, asterisks,…brackets, greater than, less than signs, and so on.…So it's best to just play it safe and stick…to cross platform friendly letters, numbers,…underscores, and hyphens.…

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9/5/2014

Learn how to convert documents and files originally intended for print into optimized digital formats such as EPUB, interactive PDF, HTML, or a Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) file. In this course, author Mike Rankin shows you how to choose the best format for your project, make any necessary layout or content changes using Adobe InDesign, and ensure your images and other assets are licensed for digital use. Plus, learn best practices for scanning text, photos, and illustrations, and discover how to enrich your digital publications with video. This course provides a step-by-step workflow that will help you stay organized and get the best results from your conversion.